1 / 1

Measuring Geologic Time

Measuring Geologic Time. LARGEST unit of time;. Eon:. +/- billion yrs. Era:. +/- hundred million yrs. Scale:. 1 square = 10 million yrs. Period:. +/- ten million yrs. Epoch:. smallest unit of time. p resent day. 5 00 m.y.a . 4 00 m.y.a . 3 00 m.y.a . 2 00 m.y.a .

oriole
Download Presentation

Measuring Geologic Time

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Measuring Geologic Time LARGEST unit of time; Eon: +/- billion yrs Era: +/- hundred million yrs Scale: 1 square = 10 million yrs. Period: +/- ten million yrs Epoch: smallest unit of time present day 500 m.y.a. 400 m.y.a. 300 m.y.a. 200 m.y.a. 100 m.y.a. Phanerozoic Eon Mesozoic Era Cenozoic Era Paleozoic Era Quat. Pd. Tertiary Period Enlarged ~ 200 x Holocene Epoch Pleistocene Epoch

More Related